Tuesday, June 08, 2010

AVATARS LIKE MOZART.

Given the impossibility of carrying out brain transplants, transhumanists suggests for some years to scan fine brain slices of deceaseds, transfer these to supercomputers and revive the brain, inserted in biological entities or robots. A variant of such idea is to create immortal avatarsto the style of Zoe Graystone: (woman with 2 brains, one human and her digital copy), in which when dying the human brain, the digital copy becomes conscious, being implanted in an humanoid robot that immortalize to Zoe. The company Lifenaut stores pictures, interviews, daily life videos, correspondence, values, beliefs, hopes and candidate's goals in order to create a believable copy of his personality. Such avatar thinks, feel and speak as the dead. Such a change would give a real idea of the personality of such humans to their descendants. To this end the company Image Metricsof California, creates digital faces, each one with a different expression.

Project Lifelike, has advanced to the point of affirming that idiosyncratic movements (how he moves the head when speaking, how he arches the brows), of a person are but important than his face’s expressions. To construction of such faces and bodies have helped the chatbots (that analyze the context of a conversation, producing intelligent answers, with sense, as if they were thinking, even reflecting feelings). Lifeloggers uses a portable camera to register the lives of the candidates. Antonio Chella assures that the acquisition of conscience on the part of an avatar requires a close interaction among brain, body and environment. It is perceived with the whole body. Hanson hopes the avatars will have similar intelligence to human beings the 2019, and later avatar geniuses like Mozart.